Taste of her Sting

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Taste of Her Sting was a virtual representation of one of Bayek's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description

Bayek finds a disturbing scene of death, and decides to keep his eyes open for more clues.

Dialogue

Bayek travelled to the Lost Crypt located on an island in Lake Mareotis.

• Bayek: A scene of death. I should investigate.

He discovered a papyrus on the ground.

• Bayek: Scraps of a message. There's too much missing.
• Prayer to Serqet:
  I speak for the goddess, and the goddess speaks through me. She sits upon my tongue, and my sting is her sting. Her face is the scorpion, and snake, and spider, and I wear her mark. I take her name, for mine was a dull, rusty thing. I do her honor, in hopes that she will show me the mysteries. I speak for the goddess and you speak for me.

Bayek discovered traces of blood on a mat with candles.

• Bayek: Was this some terrible ceremony? There is so much blood, as if some butchery occurred here. But the elements have eroded many of the signs.

He walked down the stairs, where he discovered a statue of Sekhmet laying on the ground.

• Bayek: Sekhmet, the goddess of hunters. But there are scratches here, above the statue's stomach. What does it represent?

Bayek descended further and discovered an open, empty wooden sarcophagus.

• Bayek: Scraps of blood and flesh. There was a body here, but crocodiles must have devoured it.

He discovered the lid of the sarcophagus laying on the water.

• Bayek: The lid of a sarcophagus? There was a symbol here, but it is too damaged for me to make out. Troubling. If I had more information, I might understand this better. But as he was eaten by a crocodile... I'll keep an eye out for anything else so unusual.

Bayek left the site. While travelling in the northeast of Kanopos Nome, Bayek discovered more signs of killings outside the Shrine of Serapis.

• Bayek: Indications of violence and bloodshed. I should investigate.

He investigated a mark of Serqet beneath the statue of Serapis near the edge of a cliff.

• Bayek: Serapis, god of divine majesty and lord of the sun, someone has placed a mark upon you. The scorpion is the sign of Serqet.

He investigated a scroll near the edge of the cliff.

• Prayer to Serqet:
  The mysteries of the gods are held beyond the door, contained within the secrets of the body. We must call together facets of the four gods -- Sekhmet, mistress of the desert, Serapis, lord of transition, Sobek, lord of the Nile, and Horus, lord of the sky. Their followers will be initiated into our order in their holy places. We will share their knowledge, and drink of their wisdom.
• Bayek: Curious, sinister writings.

Bayek jumped off the cliff, where he found a corpse and blood trails on the ground.

• Bayek: This poor man was half-eaten by crocodiles. But only after he died. Someone prepared him for burial, and cut out some of his sacred organs. His stomach at least, was removed.

Bayek found a small entrance under the cliff and entered it. He investigated a symbol on a wooden sarcophagus.

• Bayek: This symbol. A dedication to Serqet, the goddess of magic. The scorpion.

He investigated blood stains on a table.

• Bayek: Old blood stains this table. I think the body was prepared here. But crudely. This is no fine, skilled work. These deaths seem like some kind of perverse ritual against the gods. Who, or what, is driving it?

Sometime later, Bayek came across a flooded temple ruin in the south of Kanopos Nome, where another ritual had been conducted.

• Bayek: What happened here? Omens of death.

He investigated a papyrus on the floor behind a wall.

• Prayer to Serqet:
  We call upon Serqet, who holds the breath and delivers the poison. We bring priests of the four gods to their sacred places, and we give them the glorified rites to meet Serqet, in her place of power beneath her heavenly sign. Their powerful divine organs contain the secrets of divinity. We sacrifice them to appease the goddess of magic and medicine.
• Bayek: Dark and foreboding invocations.

He investigated a sarcophagus on the wall.

• Bayek: They must have brought the sarcophagus by felucca. Pretty remote place for this. Some of those marks on the body look like the sacred organs were removed. At least the lungs are gone.

He investigated a statue of Sobek.

• Bayek: A statue of Sobek, lord of the Nile. But he's contained within a symbol that invokes Serqet, the scorpion goddess of magic.

He investigated a small felucca.

• Bayek: Looks like the pilot got away, but left embalming tools.
  These deaths are a harrowing journey into madness. What could the perpetrators hope to gain by invoking the goddess of magic?

Bayek visited another ritual site in a flooded ruin in Sapi-Res Nome. He found a pool of blood in the waters.

• Bayek: Blood on the water. Omens in the sky.

He investigated a scroll on the ground.

• Prayer to Serqet:
  I speak for the goddess, and the goddess speaks through me. She sits upon my tongue, and my sting is her sting. Her face is the scorpion, and snake, and spider, and I wear her mark. I take her name, for mine was a dull, rusty thing. I do her honor, in hopes that she will show me the mysteries. I speak for the goddess and you speak for me.
  
  The mysteries of the gods are held beyond the door, contained within the secrets of the body. We must call together facets of the four gods -- Sekhmet, mistress of the desert, Serapis, lord of transition, Sobek, lord of the Nile, and Horus, lord of the sky. Their followers will be initiated into our order in their holy places. We will share their knowledge, and drink of their wisdom.
  
  We call upon Serqet, who holds the breath and delivers the poison. We bring priests of the four gods to their sacred places, and we give them the glorified rites to meet Serqet, in her place of power beneath her heavenly sign. Their powerful divine organs contain the secrets of divinity. We sacrifice them to appease the goddess of magic and medicine.
  
  Serqet, Selqet, Selkit goddess of scorpion and snake and spider, we give you the sacred organs of the lesser priests as offering.
  Serqet, Selqet, Selkit we perform this rites in the shadow of your stone circle. In the caves beneath your stars.
  Serqet, Selqet, Selkit hold our breath until we see the light of divinity, and then return our breath to us to bring your words to this earthly realm.
  Serqet, Selqet, Selkit imbue us with your burning wrath, and keep us safe in our explorations of your mysteries.
• Bayek: This perverse poetry celebrates chaos. It inverts that is divine and just.

He investigated a sarcophagus on the ground.

• Bayek: I suspect the sarcophagus was transported by cart. It is inscribed with the mark of Serqet, the scorpion goddess. But where is the body?

He investigated tracks on the ground.

• Bayek: Someone came here with a heavily laden cart. And left the same way, though the second track looks lighter.

Bayek dived into the flooded ruins and found a body at the bottom.

• Bayek: Poor man. You did not deserve to be dragged underwater by these hippos. And it appears you were prepared for the afterlife by a clumsy butcher with no thumbs. Where is your liver?
  This happened recently, and the cart may not have traveled far. There may be more to this mystery nearby. Those responsible should not be allowed to do this again.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Origins